The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Dino Segovis, of DinoFab.com, shows you how easy it is to turn a RumbleBot robot toy (available for $5-20 on eBay) into an Arduino-controlled robot, which opens up all sorts of possibilities. Rumble Robot Arduino Hack
Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Thanks go to Bob Goldstein for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17. To download The Animal Detector MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Animal Detector article in MAKE, Volume 17 “Animal Detector” and you can see that […]
Make a varmint detecting webcam that captures rascally rabbits in your backyard. Thanks go to Bob Goldstein for the original article in MAKE, Volume 17.View the PDF of this project. and then subscribe to MAKE Magazine for other great projects you can do over the weekend.
Sean Ragan made this easy spinning top toy from a CD and a few screw-together lamp parts. He classed it up by customizing the CD with his Lightscribe drive which allows you to etch designs on the surface of CDRs.
Today, on EMS Labs, they run through some fun and even useful things you can do with magnets. And who doesn’t love magnets? Make almost anything (ferromagnetic) into a building set With magnets as connectors, you can build tins into anything you like. (Just be sure to get Bawls Mints, not Bawls Buzz). Extract batteries […]
…It was at this point that Chester realized maybe not ALL pedal-powered tools were “appropriate” technology. Happy Earth Day! PPPM: Pedal Powered Hacksaw
The amazing and talented Jeri Ellsworth was at Notacon 2009 last week, and among other things, was showing off this awesome Nintendo/C64 purse. There are no details on it, but I’ll see if I can’t get more info from Jeri. From Rose White’s Flickr photostream. Thanks, Rose! Update: In response to my post, Jeri emailed […]
